Animal Rights

Horses Horses to the slaughter

U.S. horses are meeting gruesome ends abroad, while the debate rages on: Are horses 1,500 pounds of food or friend?
By Megan Wilde Jun 30, 2009

  • Should we euthanize the Yorkie?

    My grandmother is ill and cannot care for her aging Yorkshire terrier.
    By Cary Tennis November 28, 2007

  • Feminist blog goes to the dogs

    Animal rights activists hijack Feministing, attacking blogger for buying her puppy from a breeder.
    By Carol Lloyd September 7, 2007

  • I hate my cat!

    We saved this day-old kitten from certain death, and now, three years later, he's our worst nightmare.
    By Cary Tennis June 1, 2007

  • I want my foie gras!

    Outspoken foodies Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman sound off about New Jersey's plan to ban the duck delicacy -- and how the food police are ruining America.
    October 5, 2006

  • Can I kill a cat if it poops in my yard?

    My kids like to play and there's a cat that visits every night.
    By Cary Tennis May 25, 2006

  • The practical ethicist

    "The Way We Eat" author Peter Singer explains the advantage of wingless chickens, how humans discriminate against animals, and the downside of buying locally grown food.
    By Oliver Broudy May 8, 2006

  • And your little dog, too

    New Maine law includes pets in domestic violence protection orders.
    By Lynn Harris April 11, 2006

  • I'm so vegan it hurts

    I'm becoming increasingly militant in my vegetarian activism, and it's causing me to isolate and be depressed.
    By Cary Tennis March 8, 2006

  • Thugs for puppies

    The militant animal rights group SHAC has one goal: Cripple a lab that tests (and kills) dogs and monkeys. They say they're activists. The government calls them terrorists.
    By John Cook February 7, 2006

  • "Cut class, not frogs"

    People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' new Web site tutors teenage animal-rights warriors how to resist dissection in biology class and mystery meat in the cafeteria.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 21, 2002

  • "Drawing the Line" by Steven M. Wise

    A Harvard professor says science itself proves that such animals as parrots, apes and elephants should be considered persons with legal rights.
    By Kurt Kleiner September 4, 2002

  • Send in the clowns

    How Ringling Bros. minions tormented a freelance writer for eight years.
    By Jeff Stein August 31, 2001

  • No free speech for animal rights Web sites

    A British medical research firm hammers its online opponents, courtesy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski August 31, 2001

  • "Professor Death"

    Controversial bioethicist Peter Singer talks about the difference between humans and animals (none), the virtues of euthanasia (many) and why some babies are better off dead.
    By Viktor Frolke June 25, 2001

  • The killer cocks of Oregon

    Why does the land o' many Birkenstocks allow fowl to be bred for cockfights?
    By Phil Busse April 18, 2001

  • "Rattling the Cage"

    In his new book, animal rights law professor Steven Wise argues that chimps are persons too.
    By Susan McCarthy February 4, 2000

  • Why I stopped being a vegetarian

    It's anti-social, not necessarily healthful -- and besides, meat tastes good!
    By Laura Fraser January 7, 2000

  • Media circus

    Congressional representatives join "The Price Is Right" host Bob Barker in a made-for-media clarion call for elephants' rights in India.
    By Jake Tapper July 14, 1999

  • Where's the rest of me?

    The prospect of "full-body transplants" offers some weird new twists on the old mind-body problem.
    By Maia Szalavitz June 29, 1998

  • Newsreal: Death to Bambi!

    The problem of America's exploding deer population is pitting hunters, who want to shoot more of them, against animal rights activists, who want to try birth control.
    By Harry Jaffe December 22, 1997
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